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Thursday, April 6, 2017

QuickStart: Installing Ubuntu On Raspberry PI From Windows

The Raspberry PI offers support for a large number of Operating Systems. This article lists all the operating systems supported by Raspberry PI. I started off with Raspbian, which installs by default. I went on to try Windows 10 IOT Core for Raspberry PI 3, following that I tried Ubuntu. This article details how to install Ubuntu by copying it to your MicroSD from a computer running Windows.

To start make sure your computer has a slot to insert the MicroSD card.

An Ubuntu SSO account is required to create the first user on an Ubuntu Core installation.so login or register.

Once logged in you can retrieve the Ubuntu SSH Keys. You will need these later when you load Ubuntu for the first time.

If you don't have a program to unzip .tz file then download 7Zip.

Next download the Ubuntu Mate from the Raspberry PI tab

Use 7Zip or whaterver program you use to unzip .tz to unzip the Ubuntu image .tz file

Next download and install Windows Disk Imager. Make sure you choose Create Desktop Shortcut as it will save you time later. You can always delete it when done

When completed choose to run Windows Disk Imager

Click the icon beside Image File to select the Ubuntu image

Use the device dropdown to choose your Micro SD card.

Click on Write and it will copy the image to the card.

After the copy completes successfully you are ready to install.

Insert the Micro SD card into your Raspberry PI and plug in the power.